Subj : To RAID or not to RAID?
To   : Belly
From : Sniper
Date : Thu Aug 19 2004 11:45 pm

-=> Belly Scribbled to Sniper <=-

 Be> @MSGID: <4124DF2E.1203.doveunix@brazi.net>
 Be> @REPLY: <41244085.2039.doveunix@kia.zapto.org>
 Be>   Re: To RAID or not to RAID?
 Be>   By: Sniper to Belly on Wed
 Be> Aug 18 2004 03:50 pm

 > to the disk management in WinXP, one drive wasn't mounted, so, clicked
 > on it, and did a quick NTFS format on it. About that time I looked a bit
 > closer and saw the size of the drive... 120gig... not 80... I said OH
 > SHIT, tried to stop the format, which finished about the time I said Oh
 > shit... I tried every recovery utility/program I could find, and not one

 Be> One time I had a tech who was ghosting a customer's failing drive
 Be> (still functional, but failing) to a new one... You can guess what
 Be> happened... He got the souce and destination reversed. :(

 Be> Not a happy day. The fact that it was someone else's data made it
 Be> worse.

That sucks...  I haven't used Ghost in a long time.  Last time was when
I had to build a shit load of PC's... created a ghost server and shot it
down to the systems.  But that was back with Win98... haven't used it
since NT2000 and XP... I think I tried it once, but it had a problem
with the ID or some such on an XP system.  Haven't had much use for
it... :)

About a week ago, went to a clients office because their server wouldn't
boot.  Got that lovely NTLDR error... played with the thing for a bit,
it seemed to see the drives alright... Finally after about 10 minutes of
troubleshooting, I looked at the floppy disk drive.  Punched the disk
out and booted up the system.  But then I was worried because some
dumbass had put a floppy in the NT2000 Advanced Server... That system
just sits... no ones supposed to use it for anything.  I kept my fingers
crossed that they hadn't copied some virus or something to the system.
I really need to start selling encased servers that only I have a key
for.  :)



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